Attachment for bag-frames or other articles.



No. 783,350. PATENTED FEB. 21, 1905.

M. A. S. ZINN.- ATTACHMENT FOR BAG FRAMES OR OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21. 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented February 21, 1905.

PATENT FFICE.

MARTIN ZINN AND ARTHUR S. ZINN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ATTACHMENT FOR BAG-FRAMES OR OTHER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,350, dated February 21, 1905.

Application filed July 21, 1904. Serial No. 217,559. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, lVlAR'IIN ZINN and AR- THUR S. ZINN, citizens of the United States, residing at Manhattan, New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Bag-Frames or other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

By means of this invention attachments or handles can be connected to frames for bags and other articles in a neat and expeditious manner, as set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a handle and frame embodying this invention. Fig. 2 shows astaple and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Fig. Q. Fig. 4 is a section along x m, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows a staple or ring portion before being shaped or twisted and contracted.

The frame a can be of suitable make, shape, or material for a bag, purse, or other article. The handle 6 is connected to the caps 0 in suitable manner. The caps c are each constructed with a pair of annular shoulders or heads 0, suitably spaced apart so as to form a recess or groove. Within the recesses of the caps 0 rings (Z are mounted and contracted, so that the inner diameter thereof will be less than the diameter of' the shoulders or beads c. The diameter of the rings (Z is such as to enable the caps 0 swiveling in the rings (Z, but to prevent separation of the rings d and caps c. This ring, with the staple or body part (Z' and fastening or rivet parts J, as also the neck part cZ, can all be made of one piece of metal or flat material, as indicated in Fig. 5. The ring part, or rather its neck,-loeing then twisted or given a quarter or other turn as to the position indicated by dotted lines, the ring and staple part are brought to suitable angle with respect to one another. The ring is shown in Fig. 5 of the diameter it has before contraction. The ring, as shown in Fig. 5, is

large enough to allow the cap or its shouldered or head parts to pass or slip through the ring.

Such cap having its groove part placed in the plane of the ring and the ring being then suitably contracted into the groove, the bead parts are prevented from passing the ring. The cap is now held in the ring. The contraction of the ring need not be so excessive as to clamp the cap or prevent its rotation or swiveling, but sufiicient to prevent the beads slipping past or out of the ring. A set of four dies each having a face in the shape of a segment or quarter of a circle and run or pressed against four separate portions of the ring or circle (Z will contract the latter from the size shown in Fig. 5 to that of Fig. i. The metal being sufliciently ductile or contractible, the compressing-dies will compact or contract the ring without roughening or crinkling. Two or more dies can be made to contract the ring. The fastening or rivet parts can be secured or headed to secure a hold to the frame or other article. The staple is thus readily fastened in place.

This handle attachment, as seen, is composed of two pieces. The cap can be made of one piece of material and so can the ring with staple and rivets. Suitable flat metal can be used to form a blank, as shown in Fig. 5. The twist to the neck of the ring can be given by a suitable hand-tool, requiring no special machinery, or any suitable foot or power or other appliance can be used.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method of constructing attachments for handles for bag-frames and other articles comprising a shouldered cap which consists in constructing a base with a ring of circular shape and free from cuts or radial slits and having the inner diameter thereof larger than the shoulder of the cap, then mounting the ring upon the cap and contracting the ring uniformly about its circumference and between the shoulders so as to maintain its circular shape and prevent the removal of the ring off the cap, but to permit of the swiveling of the cap within the ring.

2. The method of constructing attachments for handles for bag-frames and other articles our hands in the presence of two subscribing comprising a cap which consists in constructwitnesses.

ing a base with a ring of a single piece of flat MARTIN ZINN.

metal, twisting the ring to bring the same to ARTHUR S. ZI'NN. 5 an angle with the base, mounting the ring on "Witnesses:

the cap and connecting the two. GEORGE L. HOGAN,

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set l V. J. HUTCHSON, Jr. 

